# FPEC: the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England and its Worldwide Communion

> The official website of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England (FPEC) and the Free Protestant Episcopal Church Worldwide Communion (FPEC-WC). It publishes their identities, faith, leadership, member churches, history, ordination records and a local prayer-book library.

The founding Church and its Worldwide Communion are distinct identities with overlapping history. The Church was established on 2 November 1897. Member churches of the Worldwide Communion retain their own names and local leadership. Distinguish current leadership from historical office-holders. Preserve formal names and titles. Historical records can contain gaps or differing accounts; do not infer an ordination, date, place or relationship that a record does not state.

Read public information with HTTP GET. No authentication or API key is needed. The links below provide Markdown derived from the same published HTML. Their parent directories provide the corresponding HTML pages. The homepage also supports Accept: text/markdown and returns Content-Language, Vary and a canonical Link header. Use ?lang=en for the English negotiated homepage, or an explicit language path for other languages: /fr/, /de/, /pt-BR/, /es/, /it/, /sv/ and /sr/. Each translated reading page has its own index.md file.

This is a public information website. It has no public action API, booking API or tool registration. The contact form and POST /api/contact are disabled and do not send mail. Use the contact page for the published telephone number. Never submit personal or pastoral information through an invented endpoint. The site offers no permission to send messages or join a church on a user's behalf.

## When to use this site

- [Understand the Church](https://thefpec.org/church/about/index.md): Use for the identity, faith and life of the Free Protestant Episcopal Church of England.
- [Understand the Worldwide Communion](https://thefpec.org/communion/about/index.md): Use for the fellowship of autonomous member churches and how it differs from the founding Church.
- [Find a community](https://thefpec.org/communities/index.md): Use to look up member churches, their locations, published contacts and historical status. Read status labels before describing a listing as current.
- [Explore membership](https://thefpec.org/join/index.md): Use when a church wants information about joining the Communion or beginning a conversation with its office.
- [Look up ordination and succession records](https://thefpec.org/ordination-register/index.md): Use for chronological and alphabetical records of ordinations and consecrations, including named participants, dates and places where recorded. Follow links to individual records for full details.
- [Read the Book of Common Prayer library](https://thefpec.org/prayer-book/): Use for the locally hosted English 1662 prayer book and clearly labelled historic editions and translations. This link is HTML. Read edition and completeness labels; a partial or later translation is not a complete 1662 translation. The UK access notice must be respected.

## History and leadership

- [Church history](https://thefpec.org/church/history/index.md): The Church's foundation and subsequent history, including shared developments with the Communion.
- [Communion history](https://thefpec.org/communion/history/index.md): International development, changing names and leadership, with the earlier shared history.
- [Church leadership](https://thefpec.org/church/leadership/index.md): Current Church leadership and the historical succession of Primuses.
- [Communion leadership](https://thefpec.org/communion/leadership/index.md): Current leadership of the Worldwide Communion and its distinct responsibilities.
- [Faith and worship](https://thefpec.org/church/beliefs/index.md): The Church's faith, worship and welcome.

## Documents and contact

- [Documents and letters](https://thefpec.org/documents/index.md): Pastoral letters, constitutions and synod material, with readable records and originals.
- [Historical library](https://thefpec.org/archive/index.md): Locally consolidated historical material, people, places, documents and photographs.
- [Contact](https://thefpec.org/contact/index.md): Published administrative contact information. There is currently no enabled email delivery through the website.
- [Site overview](https://thefpec.org/index.md): The two identities and the shared library.

## Optional

- [Sitemap](https://thefpec.org/sitemap.xml): All indexable HTML pages. This is XML.
- [Privacy policy](https://thefpec.org/privacy/): Consent, optional analytics and handling of personal information. This is HTML.
- [Accessibility](https://thefpec.org/accessibility/): Reading, contrast, text-size and motion controls. This is HTML.